Pine straw processing and bagging system
AssigneeSwift Straw II, LLC
InventorsMatthew William Lowe, Wade Haralson Goetz, Jr.
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Abstract
A system and method for packaging pine straw and a packaged mass of pine straw made therefrom, the method including providing an electronically-controlled system configured for packaging pine straw, the system including system logic that controls conveying, fluffing, cleaning, compressing and packaging of the pine straw, and using the system to compress a mass of pine straw into a rectangular mass of pine straw and enclosing the rectangular mass of pine straw within a flexible plastic sheet thereby forming a substantially rectangular packaged mass of compressed pine straw.
Claims16
A method of packaging pine straw comprising:
- providing an electronically-controlled system configured for packaging pine straw, the system including system logic that controls conveying, fluffing, cleaning, compressing and packaging of the pine straw, and
- using the system to compress a mass of pine straw into a rectangular mass of pine straw and enclose the rectangular mass of pine straw within a flexible plastic sheet thereby forming a substantially rectangular packaged mass of compressed pine straw.
A pine straw packaging system comprising:
- a system logic configured for controlling conveying, fluffing, compressing and packaging of pine straw,
- a conveyor operatively coupled to the system logic, the conveyor having means for fluffing and cleaning the pine straw, and
- a bagger operatively coupled to the system logic, the bagger having means for weighing, compressing and packaging the pine straw.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.